“You just open it up and you go”

John Lamberti, an LAPD homicide detective, talking about a tool specific to his profession that he really likes using. From Dan Heath’s podcast What It’s Like to Be:

“Okay, this is gonna sound crazy, but it is my notebook. It is basic, it is unapologetically analog, and I am otherwise all in on technology, and I’ve tried talking notes digitally, but I’ve yet to find a good substitute for a pen and paper. I don’t have to turn it on; I don’t have to make sure it’s charged; I don’t have to make sure it’s connected to wi-fi; it can’t shut down and reboot on me randomly. You just open it up and you go. And everything lives in my notebook: all the details from my crime scene, notes from my witness interviews, observations that I made. It’s where you capture like the raw data of the story as it’s unfolding, and it is with me every step of the way. I don’t go anywhere without my notebook.”

Related reading
All OCA notebook posts (Raindrop.io)

[My transcription.]